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😵 Vision dimming 🖥️ Inactive display 🖥️ To disable visually
to grayout

to grayout

8.0
To make a screen control look dim when it cannot be used
  • verb
  • /ˈɡreɪˌaʊt/
  • Specialized
: desactivar
  • The software will grayout the print option if no printer is connected.

Examples

  • When you enter the wrong password, the system may grayout the login button temporarily.

  • If your internet connection is unstable, the download button will grayout to show it's unavailable.

  • Some menu items are grayout until you select a file to open.

  • Why did the option grayout when I clicked it?

  • The feature will grayout if you don't have the right permissions.

  • The application will grayout certain features while in offline mode, indicating they cannot be accessed.

  • When the system is busy, it will grayout the options that you cannot select at that moment.

Antonyms

to activate
418 3.6

To make a machine, system, or account start working

How Disabled

to disable
186 3.5
to grayout
  • Specialized
8.0
to dim
45 2.4

Surface Forms

grayout infinitive
graying out present participle
grayouts third person singular
grayed out past
grayed out past participle

Morphology

grayout = gray (transparent) = out + gray

The verb is transparently composed of 'gray' + 'out' (to make something appear grey/inactive), a standard phrasal/compound formation in computing contexts. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

The verb grayout comes from gray ('to make dull or faded') and out ('to make not active'), so to grayout a button is to make it look gray and unusable on the screen.